What's black and blue and red all over ( Read more... )

Why is Ali jumping up and down and waving her hands so much?

What's with the flashing lights on the television?

What is that music?

All good questions, with one answer: Dance Dance Revolution. If only somebody wanted to play with her...

Ali might be considered many things, but a typical tourist wasn't one of them. This was at least in part due to the fact that she went on so few vacations she didn't know how to be a typical tourist. Sure, she might have over-packed a bit, but it was hard to tell when there were so many people in the entourage. And how many people got picked up ( Read more... )

Ali stood a little ways back from the crowds lining the street edging Thomas Park, watching the children dance along to the music. They were certainly enthusiastically Irish for the moment. Ali's own obvious credentials had made getting to the park a challenge, as just about everybody wanted to have a celebratory kiss. And the less said about ( Read more... )

( A short month, but very busy... )

The Trainer household was hardly what anyone would call "common", but even still it tended to have its routines and rituals. One was that Sunday mornings were spent being quietly productive. Nobody got up too terribly early, but after breakfast it was expected something useful be done with the day ( Read more... )

There's a new Malk in the Nexus, Daisy Olson. He's having a problem with a hunter back home, poor thing. He likes fairy tales, but doesn't understand them as well as he thinks. And he wants to be a romantic. Or at least he seemed to want to one night. They're so flighty sometimes. But he does have a strange sort of wisdom. When he's not ( Read more... )

Ali disliked owing people things. It weighed heavily on her mind that she owed Aramis a proper thank-you for taking her to see his Paris; in her heart, she knew that date she set him up on with Samus didn't count. And she was worried about him. He hadn't been in a good way last time she saw him, and he'd been absent a while now ( Read more... )

( Nexus Misadventures )

Life has been quiet, but not uneventful. Things have been, surprisingly enough, progressing smoothly and with lovely outcomes ( Read more... )